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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hippy" data-source="post: 7527456" data-attributes="member: 63574">I use an HDTV and D20Pro to show the location of the rooms, hallways etc. under fog-of war and reveal as they progress; and then when the party has an encounter I switch to a premade board.  I craft, so I use hirst arts, dwarven forge, and hand made pieces (ala DM Scotty style on youtube) to bring the game to a 2.5 and 3d mode.  My players love it and I can reuse most if not all of my craft pieces every game,  I also have a two sided vinyl dry erase battle mat that I will use from time to time for city and outdoor encounters.  I just put the terrain right over the top and game on.  As I just picked up a 720P projector I am also thinking about projecting up from the floor and using Neverwinter Nights do design animated ground plane effects, but this may be more time consuming than it is worth.  I don't want to put my TV flat on the game table as it is not strong enough to withstand the weight of the terrain pieces.  The hirst arts stuff would break the screen in no time flat.My recommendation for your issue (if you don't want to craft) is to look into Roll 4 Initiative Dry Erase Gaming Tiles and then you can draw them ahead of time and attach together as needed, as they are big puzzle piece boards.  I use these for games outside my home, where hauling my normal terrain (described above) would be too cumbersome.  You can find these on Amazon, and while they are not as durable as the Tac-Tile dry erase boards that are sadly out of production and way too expensive on e-bay (if you can even find them), they do a good job for the dollar spent.I hope this long-winded response helps.Good gaming!Hippy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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